Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi ‘heading back to US’ after fleeing Trump’s America
The pair decided to settle in the UK the day after Trump was re-elected President, but they are now eyeing up spending more time in California, it has been claimed
Brendan McFadden Reporter
15:33 ET, 30 Nov 2025
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi bought a home in the Cotswolds(Image: Getty Images)
Ellen DeGeneres and her wife are planning to spend more time in the U.S. after moving to England a year ago to flee the country over Donald Trump becoming president, according to reports.
A year ago DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi left America and bought a rural home in the Cotswolds. At the time they said they could not bare staying in the US over Donald Trump being re-elected.
The pair decided to settle in the U.K. the day after Trump was re-elected President. In the TV star’s first public appearance in the U.K. in July, DeGeneres told a crowd in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, that life “is just better” in the U.K.
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The Mail on Sunday claimed that DeGeneres has told friends she and de Rossi intend to spend more time in California, where they previously lived for many years, because they “miss their friends'” and dread the thought of another British winter. The publication reported a source said, “Ellen was adamant that she and Portia were going to stay in the UK while Trump was in the White House, but evidently she’s changed her mind somewhat.
“She’s been telling friends they are coming home soon because they miss them and can’t take the winters over there, and Portia wants to act again. They will be here for the holidays and longer by the sound of it. Ellen was very clear that they’re coming back to California sooner rather than later. They miss the warm weather and their friends.”
DeGeneres said ‘life is easier in the UK.’ Pictured, a home in a Cotswolds village(Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)
De Generes, 67, and de Rossi, 52, a star of TV shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, first moved to Kitesbridge Farm in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire. They then sold the 43-acre estate in July for £22.5 million ($29 million).
After that, they decided to move into a hilltop mansion with land to keep horses on because de Rossi is a keen rider. Explaining their decision to move, DeGeneres, said, “When we decided to live here full time we knew that Portia couldn’t live without her horses. We needed a home that had a horse facility and pastures for them. The home also has plenty of space for their two puppies, Sport and Jinx, and their older dog, Kid.”
It appeared the pair had adapted well to country life, as they were seen on many outings at local pubs. .
Previously explaining her move to the U.K., DeGeneres said during an appearance at the Everyman theatre Cheltenham, “We got here [to the UK] the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in’. And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here’.” She also told how a reason she left is because she fears the “Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage.”
The pair left the UK over Donald Trump being re-elected(Image: Ellen DeGeneres/Instagram)
DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in 1997 in her hit sitcom Ellen. She went on to host her talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show which concluded in 2022 after claims were made that she bullied staff and that there was and a toxic on-set environment.
Before the show came off air, DeGeneres issued a written and on-air statement to staff over the allegations. She later claimed the scandal felt “misogynistic” and “too orchestrated, too coordinated.”
She also called the controversy as “devastating.” But in a 2024 Netflix special, For Your Approval, she quipped that she “‘got kicked out of show business for being mean.”
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